Front cover image for Rough rider in the White House : Theodore Roosevelt and the politics of desire

Rough rider in the White House : Theodore Roosevelt and the politics of desire

A psychological portrait of the twenty-sixth president of the United States, a man whose personal obsession with masculinity profoundly influenced the fate of a nation. This book argues that Theodore Roosevelt struggled, like many of his contemporaries, with what it meant to be a man in the modern era.
Print Book, English, c2003
University of Chicago Press, London, c2003